Thank you for the email, I must apologize for my bad Internet manners. I love your picture so much! I meant no offense, and to be totally honest, I was quite intoxicated when I wrote the original post, and was unable to find you again after becoming sober to provide proper credit.

I believe I did a yahoo image search for ‘crossroads’ originally, but I could not duplicate the results that lead me to your awesome photograph the first time. I got no less than 2 different emails requesting information about your photograph, I will reply to them and CC you once I get your permission to continue to use this image on my humble blog.

How did you find me? I’m just curious is all. Please review the changes to the post:

I pledge to immediately and without any hard feelings remove your photograph, or edit it to your satisfaction. Please forgive me for your trouble.

Cheers,

Pupster

Original Post:

Things are unsettled in the Pupster world. I’m up against some really heavy meat world stuff, my dear pretend internet friends. I have to make a grown-up type decision and I feel like a fawn in headlights.

How do you make the tough decisions? Honest to God, I’ve probably only made two or three of them in my whole life, I usually wait for the circumstances to force my hand, or the murky water to settle and clear. Wait and see is a sure way for one of my options to go away in this instance. I might just flip a coin.

It might sound cornier, but pray? Do your thinking and discussing and pro/conning and then make a decision and pray and ask (if that’s your style) or just let it sink in (if it’s not). If it feels good, follow the feeling. If the decision doesn’t feel good, back up. I’m kind of a “not making a decision is a decision” type. But anyway, there’s $.02-worth.

seriously? go with your gut. Not your head, not your heart, but your gut.
The gut feeling is usually God whispering to you. listen
This is coming from someone who’s made some seriously stupid decisions in her life and is now making really good ones.
Let each decision come indiviually into your mind and look at what the “feeling” is you get from them. I know that seems like a chick thing to do, but I mean whether either of those decisions kind of gives you a pit in your stomach or not. sorry for the ramble
no need to ask for forgiveness or advice, just wisdom

I know you feel like a woman trapped in a man’s body. Sometimes life isn’t fair. However, my advice is to NOT have your weiner fileted into a vajajay. If you still want to go with the breast implants, that’s cool. That way you can sit around and play with them whenever you want.

Look at it this way. You drive a Jeep, which is half-way to being a lesbian. So you might as well stick to liking women.

Last time I faced one like that was the decision to come here (cent. Texas) 16 years ago. I prayed and weighed and just did not get a clear sense of direction, one way or the other.

I was yakkin with my pastor about it (RIP Bob Earl, you were a good man), and he gave me some of the best advice I ever got from a pastor. He said “you pray about it, and if after that you still don’t have a clear sense of what you think He wants you to do, then do what seems best to you, and if it isn’t what He wants for you, He will withdraw you from it gracefully”.

It’s funny how rare situations like this are, where it is so obvious and clear that you are about to make a major choice. Usually things just work out to where you’ve got one smart move to make, or there’s only one right thing to do.

Not much to add to all the good advice above, other than to consider where each option will put you twenty years from now.